A year without Diego, the genius who has no heirs
from Roberto Chiesa
25 Nov 2021
From one year football is without the king. From which he inherited his anxieties and weaknesses, but not his talent. That remained in the most precious and ingenious left foot. It was Pibe de Oro, boy next door, friend of all perhaps too much and also of the last, especially the last ones. Maradona who enchants and at the same time derails on the tracks of such a widespread and complicated life. He was leader, companion with C and also with K, Castro and clumsy icon of the fight against the powerful. It was used, those who attended him say he did not deny trust a priori. Too affectionate not to be loved, too naive to handle his greatness. And so while the last crows are still circling a year later to look for what is left of him, to say if he died rich or poor, unmade or ill, while the sick of numbers argue about who between him and Pele, Di Stefano or Perdernera, the stock is amputated and the wound does not heal. Naples dedicates a statue, a shirt, eternal gratitude to him. From the archives overflowing goals and plays that today not even video games. Without Diego, football is poorer. He has lost imagination, emotion, and even one to blame.
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